The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.